David Saleh Rauf

School districts have access to a record amount of federal stimulus money, but the party’s over in late September 2024, the deadline to spend all of that funding. We talk with Education Week’s Mark Lieberman about the pace of district spending, the challenges they face in getting money devoted to projects, and whether they’re thinking strategically about the funding cliff, or not.

Districts are using a flood of federal stimulus funding and other sources to invest heavily in academic intervention for students who have struggled during COVID. But how are school systems making basic decisions about the quality of providers, the qualifications of instructors, how many providers to choose, and – perhaps most important – making decisions about whether to sustain that work over time?